Photo by GLYNN HARRIS
An unusual white-winged dove showed up in hunter’s bags this week. In the photo, a common mourning dove is on the left; white-winged dove on the right.

Every April, I head out for southwest Texas for one of my favorite activities. My destination is the Russell Ranch near Menard where I’ll spend a few days hunting Rio Grande turkeys.

I have never seen a Rio here in Louisiana. They don’t live here; our habitat only supports our Eastern sub-species. I wouldn’t have been too surprised last week, though, to see a Rio crossing a road. Why? Hurricanes tend to cause strange things to happen in the bird world.

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Louisiana Tech used a monster 22-0 run in the first half and double-doubles from Michale Kyser and Jaron Johnson to overpower Florida International 85-51 on Saturday night in front of 4,236 fans inside the Thomas Assembly Center.

The victory was the sixth straight for the Bulldogs (14-3, 2-0 C-USA) who needed someone off the bench to score in place of their leading scorer Appleby, and Saturday that was Jaron Johnson.

We hear about school-yard bullies unfortunately all-too often. A dominating buffoon can create terror for some youngsters.

The same thing can take place in the world of the whitetail deer, and Simsboro’s Dan Durrett saw it happen this past season. Once a “bully buck” was taken out of the herd, Durrett was able to down a ten point followed 10 days later by a big nine point with the combined measurements of the two trophies bumping almost 300 inches of bone. All three bucks were taken from the same stand.